Increase the default value for the maximum number of recently-opened
files from 10 to 20. Also change the user's preference on version bump
to this new value if their current value is exactly the old default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105703
Move two settings that were previously in the "View" menu of the Graph Editor into User Preferences.
It has been mentioned in the meeting by Luciano Muñoz Sessarego that it would be good to move that to the preferences so you can set it once and then forget about it.
The Settings moved are:
Only Selected Curve Keyframes
Use High Quality Display
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104532
Add overlay option for retopology, which hides the shaded mesh akin to Hidden Wire, and offsets the edit mesh overlay towards the view.
Related Task #70267
Pull Request #104599
Previously [D16255](https://developer.blender.org/D16255)
There is no option to adjust the edge_width like there is in the preferences for vertex_size and face_dot_size.
I only added the option for 3DView and UV/Image Editor, and limited both to a max size of 5 pixel, since the edges do not look very nice with too high values.
In the UV Editor only, there are always black outlines on the edges, I could not find a way to reduce the increasing thickness of these black outlines.
The default edge_width of 1 pixel:
Here the edge_width with a falue of 3:
And here the visible increase of the dark border of the edges and their overlap (even at the maxed size of 5):
Lastly for the 3DView the max edge_width of 5 looks like this:
Pull Request #104741
This tools allows to change strip playback speed by manipulating
retiming handles. More handles can be added to single strip to create
variable playback speed.
This tool replaces Speed Factor property in time panel, with exception
of sound strips. Support for sound strips is still in review.
Pull Request #104523
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
After rBdb87e2a638f9, two contexts were missing:
- VirtualReality, to be used in an add-on
- Constraint, used in the constraints UI
The latter was actually used without being added, which caused errors.
It was reverted in rB31a640027982.
This reverts commit 19222627c6.
Something went wrong here, seems like this commit merged the main branch
into the release branch, which should never be done.
Currently Metal is more stable then the OpenGL backend on apple
devices. Also the Metal backend supports more features then the
OpenGL backend. For example the viewport compositor and rendering
of production files.
This has been validated with users and studios.
This patch will default to the Metal backend when starting
Blender 3.5 for the first time or when loading factory startup. It
is still possible to switch to OpenGL via the user preferences.
It will not automatically select the Metal backend when there is
already user preferences available for Blender 3.5.
No design or functional changes. Just rename the layers for the last
two icons that were added so that they follow the naming pattern.
Also, update the layer order for another icon (was not alphabetic).
Pull Request #104954
Note that the node group has its sockets names translated, while the
built-in nodes don't. So we need to use data_ for the built-in nodes
names, and the sockets of the created node groups.
Pull Request #104889
This reverts commit 68181c2560.
I merged 3.6 into 3.5 by mistake. Basically I had a PR against main,
then changed it in the last minute to be against 3.5 via the
web-interface unaware that I shouldn't do it without updating the
patch.
Original Pull Request: #104889
Note that the node group has its sockets names
translated, while the built-in nodes don't.
So we need to use data_ for the built-in nodes names,
and the sockets of the created node groups.
Pull Request #104889
When animating it is often useful to frame the Graph Editor/Dope Sheet to whatever frames are in a given channel.
This patch adds the option to frame on selected channels OR frame on whatever channel is under the cursor.
If a preview range is set it will only focus on keys in that range.
Supports FCurve and keyframe data
Frame to selected is called with
* Right click in the channel section -> Frame Selected Channels
* or in Channel → Frame Selected Channels
* or hitting . on the numpad
Frame to channel under cursor is done with
ALT + Middle Mouse Button
Co-authored-by: Christoph Lendenfeld <chris.lenden@gmail.com>
Pull Request #104523
Finding the documentation for nodes can be time consuming.
By adding the online manual to the right click context menu in the node
editor the user gets easier access to the documentation.
Can also be used by custom nodes add-ons by registering a manual-map.
Pull Request #104833
This adds the "Select More/Less" operators for Curves. Both operators use the `select_adjacent` function to (de)select adjacent points.
Pull Request #104626
After the removal of the "normal" attribute providers, we no longer
use the concept of read-only attributes. Removing this status simplifies
code, clarifies the design, and removes potentially buggy corner cases.
Pull Request #104795
* Fix#92539: Hard to read the breadcrumbs.
* Fix View Item active, hover, and text color (e.g. count numbers in the
Spreadsheet were almost unreadable).
* Fix mismatching node type colors with the default theme.
Blender Light is meant to be simply a brighter version of the default,
so screenshots and tutorials can be followed with both themes.
* Use the same outline color for widgets, so they match when aligned in a row.
* Make panels standout (not fully transparent), like in the default theme.
The Preferences for asset libraries are becoming more than a simple name
+ path. E.g. there is now an Import Method options, and we previously
also considered a Relative Paths option (which we may still want to
add). The previous UI, while consistent with the Auto Run Python Scripts
UI isn't well suited for less than trivial cases. Using UI lists makes
the UI more scalable and follows usual list UI patterns more. There is
also more space for the path button now.
Part of #104686.
The default import method for an asset library can now be determined in
the Preferences. The Asset Browser has a new "Follow Preferences" option
for the importing. The essentials asset library still only uses "Append
(Reuse Data)".
This is part of #104686, which aims at improving the import method
selection, especially for the introduction of the new essentials library
(which doesn't support certain import methods). Further changes are
coming to improve the UI, see #104686.
Pull Request: #104688
The quick fur operator now uses the new hair system. It adds a new
curves object for every selected mesh, and adds geometry nodes
modifiers from the essentials assets that generate curves. A few
settings are exposed in the redo panel, including an option for whether
to apply the modifier to generate the initial curves so that there is
original editable data.
The point of the operator is to give people a sense of how to use the
node groups and to give a very fast way to build a basic setup for
further tweaking.
Pull Request #104764
Use the right hand side selection, as it fits the typical workflow
the best.
Arguably, the same would need to be done for the k-shortcut, but
that is another issue to be tackled. As well as making the selection
active.
Pull Request #104777
This implements the delete operator in curves edit mode. The behavior
is similar to the delete operator in the edit mode of legacy curves,
i.e. it's actually dissolving and doesn't split curves. This is also
the behavior that we generally want for the hair use case.
The operator is added to the `Curves` menu and can be accessed via
the keyboard using `X` or `Del`.
Pull Request #104765
This adds a new `Curve Falloff` popover to the comb brush tool settings.
The curve control allows changing the brush weight along the curve to
e.g. affect the tip more than the root. This is a relative way to get
something like stiffness for short hair.
This functionality could potentially be added to some other brushes,
but the comb brush is the most important one, so that is added first.
I did add the buttons add the buttons to choose a curve map preset.
However, I did not add the preset dropdown, because that just adds
some unnecessary complexity in the code now and is redundant.
Pull Request #104589
This patch adds a simple operator to set values of the active
attribute for the selected element. The aim is to give simple control
over attribute values in edit mode rather than to provide the fastest
workflow for most cases. Eventually this operator might be less
important compared to more advanced attribute editing tools, but for
now, exposing a little bit of functionality is low hanging fruit and
will help to see the possibilities.
The implementation mostly consists of boilerplate to register the
necessary property types for the operator and draw their UI.
Beyond that, we just loop over selected elements and set a value.
Pull Request #104426
As described in #104171, add an operator that creates a new node group
that contain the current node group and named attribute nodes to deal
with the outputs. This saves manual work when moving a high-level
modifier to the node editor for better procedural control.
Pull Request #104546
This adds a new overlay for curves sculpt mode that displays the curves that the
user currently edits. Those may be different from the evaluated/original curves
when procedural deformations or child curves are used.
The overlay can clash with the evaluated curves when they are exactly on top of
each other. There is not much we can do about that currently. The user will have
to decide whether the overlay should be shown or not on a case-by-case basis.
Pull Request #104467
Sculpt: Added vector displacement for the sculpting draw brush (area plane mapping only for now)
Vector displacement maps (VDM) provide a way to create complex displacements that can have overhangs in one brush dab.
This is unlike standard displacement with height maps that only displace in the normal direction.
Forms like ears, curled horns, etc can be created in one click if VMDs are used.
There is a checkbox on the draw brush in the texture settings "Vector Displacement" that enables/disables this feature.
Technical description: The RGB channels of a texture in a brush stroke are read and interpreted as individual vectors, that are used to offset vertices.
As of now, this is only working for the draw brush using the area plane mapping. Symmetry and radial symmetry are working.
A few things to consider when making VD-Maps:
* UVs need to stay intact for the bake mesh (e.g. voxel remeshing can't be used to create VD Meshes)
* When exporting a VD Map it should be in the file format OpenEXR (for positive and negative floating point values).
* Export resolution can be 512x512 or lower (EXR files can get very large, but VDM brushes don't need a high resolution)
And when using them:
* Inside Blender clamping needs to be unchecked on the texture
* The brush falloff should be set to constant (or nearly constant)
This patch was inspired by this [right-click-select proposal](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/WqWx/) Thanks for the post!
(Moved [this patch](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17080) to here.)
Co-authored-by: Robin Hohnsbeen <robin@hohnsbeen.de>
Pull Request #104481
Matching the RNA id's to the search pattern is slow because
of the function `fnmatchcase`. This patch first checks the string
prefix without any special characters used by fnmatch,
if the `startswith` check fails, there is no need to check `fnmatchcase`.
Before the optimization, an online manual lookup took about 400ms
which is quite noticeable, with this patch applied it's under 10ms.
Ref !104581.
Currently the passepartout color is hardcoded to black. While a
sensible default for cinema, it may make less sense for other media,
whether video, print, web, etc. It greatly affects viewing conditions
of the image and should be user selectable, much like painting
programs allow.
Pull Request #104486
During hair grooming in curves sculpt mode, it is very useful when hair strands
are prevented from intersecting with the surface mesh. Unfortunately, it also
decreases performance significantly so we don't want it to be turned on all the time.
The surface collision is used by the Comb, Pinch and Puff brushes currently.
It can be turned on or off on a per-geometry basis.
The intersection prevention quality of this patch is not perfect yet. This can
be improved over time using a better solver. Overall, perfect collision detection
at the cost of bad performance is not necessary for interactive sculpting,
because the user can fix small mistakes very quickly. Nevertheless, the quality
can probably still be improved significantly without too big slow-downs depending
on the use case. This can be done separately from this patch.
Pull Request #104469
This adds a new `select_linked` function that selects all the points
on a curve if there is at least one point already selected.
This also adds a keymap for the operator.
Co-authored-by: Falk David <falkdavid@gmx.de>
Pull Request #104569
Add `contains_group` method in python api for `NodeTree` type, cleanup
`ntreeHasTree` function, reuse `ntreeHasTree` in more place in code.
The algorithm has been changed to not recheck trees by using set.
Performance gains from avoiding already checked node trees:
Based on tests, can say that for large files with a huge number
of trees, the response speed of opening the search menu in the
node editor increased by ~200 times (for really large projects
with 16 individual groups in 6 levels of nesting). Group insert
operations are also accelerated, but this is different in some cases.
Pull Request #104465
Adds an experimental option under "New Features" in preferences,
which enables visibility of the new Volume Nodes.
Right now this option does nothing but will be used during development.
See #103248
Pull Request #104552
Box-Selecting channels in the dope sheet with click-drag was no longer possible as of Blender 3.2
Due to the removal of tweak events the box select operator was always shadowed by the click operator.
Original Phabricator discussion here: https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17065
Use `WM_operator_flag_only_pass_through_on_press` on click operator to fix it
Co-authored-by: Christoph Lendenfeld <chris.lenden@gmail.com>
Pull Request #104505
The generator now skips these with a warning, they will need to be
corrected in the user manual.
This caused tests/python/bl_rna_manual_reference.py to fail looking
up URL's.
Move the function for getting the language code associated with the
user manual into a utility function (from the generated
rna_manual_reference.py).
This allows other parts of Blender to create a manual URL based on the
current locale preferences and environment.
Ref !104494
Add a new node that groups faces inside of boundary edge regions.
This is the opposite action as the existing "Face Group Boundaries"
node. It's also the same as some of the "Initialize Face Sets"
options in sculpt mode.
Discussion in #102962 has favored "Group" for a name for these
sockets rather than "Set", so that is used here.
Pull Request #104428
This adds a `select_box` function for the `Curves` object. It is used in the `view3d_box_select` operator.
It also adds the basic selection tools in the toolbar of Edit Mode.
Authored-by: Falk David <falkdavid@gmx.de>
Pull Request #104411
- Use bpy.utils.execfile instead of importing then deleting from
sys.modules.
- Add a note for why keeping this cached in memory isn't necessary.
This has the advantage of not interfering with any scripts that import
`rna_manual_reference` as a module.
This allow to bypass all cost associated with shadow mapping.
This can be useful in certain situation, such as opening a scene on a
lower end system or just to gain performance in some situation (lookdev).
Implements virtual shadow mapping for EEVEE-Next primary shadow solution.
This technique aims to deliver really high precision shadowing for many
lights while keeping a relatively low cost.
The technique works by splitting each shadows in tiles that are only
allocated & updated on demand by visible surfaces and volumes.
Local lights use cubemap projection with mipmap level of detail to adapt
the resolution to the receiver distance.
Sun lights use clipmap distribution or cascade distribution (depending on
which is better) for selecting the level of detail with the distance to
the camera.
Current maximum shadow precision for local light is about 1 pixel per 0.01
degrees.
For sun light, the maximum resolution is based on the camera far clip
distance which sets the most coarse clipmap.
## Limitation:
Alpha Blended surfaces might not get correct shadowing in some corner
casses. This is to be fixed in another commit.
While resolution is greatly increase, it is still finite. It is virtually
equivalent to one 8K shadow per shadow cube face and per clipmap level.
There is no filtering present for now.
## Parameters:
Shadow Pool Size: In bytes, amount of GPU memory to dedicate to the
shadow pool (is allocated per viewport).
Shadow Scaling: Scale the shadow resolution. Base resolution should
target subpixel accuracy (within the limitation of the technique).
Related to #93220
Related to #104472
Now a single script to generate both links and release notes. It also includes
the issue ID for the LTS releases, so only the release version needs to be
specified.
Pull Request #104402
There was an inconsistency between geometry sample nodes and mesh/curve
sample nodes, where the latter didn't have a special "Sample" category,
and we categorized as "Operations", which they were not. Also put the
sample category between "Read" and "Write" since the verb name is
more consistent and sampling is an advanced form of reading.
This will add a proper modal keymap for the node link drag operator.
It allows the user to customize the keys used to start drag and so on.
Also it gets rid of the custom status bar message.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17190
The operator has the option to add to selected FCurves instead
of only the active, but it was only exposed in the redo panel.
This patch adds the operator to the right-click menu on FCurve channels,
and to the channel menu in the Graph editor.
Both times with configured to add to selected
instead of only the active FCurve
Revied by Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17066
Ref: D17066
- Replace type annotations with doc-strings, the current conventions is
not to use type annotations in startup scripts.
- Replace abbreviation "idx" with "index" in public arguments/properties.
- Replace `len(..) > 0` with boolean checks.
- Add `__all__` to list public members.
- Use `arg` instead of `param` for doc-strings.
- Locate the doc-string so it shows as `__doc__`.
Adds two operators to select linked vertices in weight paint mode.
Similar to how it works in edit mode.
Press "L" to select vertices under the cursor,
or CTRL + "L" to select anything linked to the current selection.
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel, Hans Goudey, Marion Stalke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16848
Ref: D16848
In the previous situation the message was shown for Apple devices.
But this is not correct and confusing.
- Apple with Metal backend are supported, OpenGL on Apple isn't
- Legacy devices on Windows or Linux are also not supported.
This change will check that the capabilities of the GPU match the
requirements to use Viewport compositor. Based on those capabilities
a message is shown and the panel is activated.
Extract:
- EEVEE: Compiling Shaders (the same message exists in EEVEE Next, but
it uses string concatenation and I don't know yet how to deal with
those--see T92758)
Disambiguate:
- Pan (audio, camera)
- Box (TextSequence)
- Mix (noun in constraints, GP materials)
- Volume (object type, file system)
- Floor (math integer part, 3D viewport horizontal plane)
- Impossible to disambiguate the constraint name because
bConstraintTypeInfo doesn't have a context field.
- Show Overlay (in the sequence editor, use the same message as other
editors to avoid a confusion with the Frame Overlay feature, also
called "Show Overlay")
Additionally, fix a few issues reported by Joan Pujolar (@jpujolar)
in T101830.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17114
This operator updates scene strip internal length to reflect target
scene length. Previously scene strip had to be deleted and added from
scratch. Scene strip length in timeline will not be changed.
This adds a new operator: bpy.ops.mesh.flip_quad_tessellation()
This operator rotates the internal loops of the selected quads, allowing
the user to control tessellation without destructively altering the
mesh.
{F14201995}
This operator can be found in the "Face" menu (Ctrl+F) under "Face
Data".
{F14201997}
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, dbystedt
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17056
This patch adds a draw_ui_list() function, which is a wrapper around
layout.template_list(). It implements generic add/remove/move buttons,
passing the correct "row" integer to template_list(), as well as a
drop-down menu, if provided, making it a complete solution for
consistent UILists for addons.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14119
Based on T99607:
- Existing Angle Control shortcuts are removed
- Voxel, Dyntopo and Hair resolution shortcuts are remapped to `R`
Since voxel remeshing is not compatible with dyntopo, each can use the shortcut `R` for the remeshing resolution without causing a conflict.
The shortcut `R` is not currently used for anything important.
The angle control menu is commonly not used.
And sculpt mode is only coincidentally inheriting the rotate operator shortcut on `R` because nothing else is mapped to the key.
Reviewed By: Julien Kaspar and Hans Goudey and Joseph Eagar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16511
Ref D16511
This addressed feature request T99811.
Added the following features to fully support importing USDZ archives:
- Added .usdz to the list of supported extensions.
- Added new USD import options to copy textures from USDZ archives. The
textures may be imported as packed data (the default) or to a directory
on disk.
- Extended the USD material import logic to handle package-relative texture
assets paths by invoking the USD asset resolver to copy the textures from
the USDZ archive to a directory on disk. When importing in Packed mode,
the textures are first saved to Blender's temporary session directory
prior to packing.
The new USD import options are
- Import Textures: Behavior when importing textures from a USDZ archive
- Textures Directory: Path to the directory where imported textures will
be copied
- File Name Collision: Behavior when the name of an imported texture file
conflicts with an existing file
Import Textures menu options:
- None: Don't import textures
- Packed: Import textures as packed data (the default)
- Copy: Copy files to Textures Directory
File Name Collision menu options:
- Use Existing: If a file with the same name already exists, use that
instead of copying (the default)
- Overwrite: Overwrite existing files
Reviewed by: Bastien
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17074
This commit fixes T100674, Renamed the "axis" label under viewport display
panel to "axes" in object properties.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16650
Rewrite of the Workbench engine using C++ and the new Draw Manager API.
The new engine can be enabled in Blender `Preferences > Experimental > Workbench Next`.
After that, the engine can be selected in `Properties > Scene > Render Engine`.
When `Workbench Next` is the active engine, it also handles the `Solid` viewport mode rendering.
The rewrite aims to be functionally equivalent to the current Workbench engine, but it also includes some small fixes/tweaks:
- `In Front` rendered objects now work correctly with DoF and Shadows.
- The `Sampling > Viewport` setting is actually used when the viewport is in `Render Mode`.
- In `Texture` mode, textured materials also use the material properties. (Previously, only non textured materials would)
To do:
- Sculpt PBVH.
- Volume rendering.
- Hair rendering.
- Use the "no_geom" shader versions for shadow rendering.
- Decide the final API for custom visibility culling (Needed for shadows).
- Profile/optimize.
Known Issues:
- Matcaps are not loaded until they’re shown elsewhere. (e.g. when opening the `Viewort Shading` UI)
- Outlines are drawn between different materials of the same object. (Each material submesh has its own object handle)
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T101619
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16826
This adds the following operators to edit mode:
- `select_all`
- `select_random`
- `select_end`
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17047
This adds a new `Interpolate Curves` node. It allows generating new curves
between a set of existing guide curves. This is essential for procedural hair.
Usage:
- One has to provide a set of guide curves and a set of root positions for
the generated curves. New curves are created starting from these root
positions. The N closest guide curves are used for the interpolation.
- An additional up vector can be provided for every guide curve and
root position. This is typically a surface normal or nothing. This allows
generating child curves that are properly oriented based on the
surface orientation.
- Sometimes a point should only be interpolated using a subset of the
guides. This can be achieved using the `Guide Group ID` and
`Point Group ID` inputs. The curve generated at a specific point will
only take the guides with the same id into account. This allows e.g.
for hair parting.
- The `Max Neighbors` input limits how many guide curves are taken
into account for every interpolated curve.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16642
The name SAFE_AREAS_OT_preset_add lead to "Safe Areas" having it's own
section in the operator API docs. Name CAMERA_OT_safe_areas_preset_add
instead. Keep "safe_areas" as the preset directory for users with
existing presets.
The background evaluation samples the sky discretely, so if the sun is
too small, it can be missed in the evaluation. To solve this, the sun is
ignored during the background evaluation and its contribution is
computed separately.
The lookup table method on CPU and the numerical root finding method on
GPU give quite different results. This commit deletes the Beckmann lookup
table and uses numerical root finding on all devices. For the numerical
root finding, a combined bisection-Newton method with precision control
is used.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17050
wi is the viewing direction, and wo is the illumination direction. Under this notation, BSDF sampling always samples from wi and outputs wo, which is consistent with most of the papers and mitsuba. This order is reversed compared with PBRT, although PBRT also traces from the camera.
The Grease Pencil Material Popover currently has a color picker
for the Stroke of a Material using Solid style, but not one for
a Fill using Solid style.
With the default Grease Pencil Materials, the current
popover only shows the Stroke color for the grey "Solid Fill"
material (which doesn't have its Stroke enabled) instead of
the more useful Fill color.
This patch shows a Stroke color picker when the Material
has Stroke enabled and the style is Solid.
This is the same for the Fill.
Reviewed By: antoniov, mendio
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17004
This fixes the UI alignment issues that were introduced by {D12815} with the addition of the boolean custom properties.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17012
A proper boolean custom property type is commonly requested. This
commit simply adds a new `IDP_BOOLEAN` type that can be used for
boolean and boolean array custom properties. This can also be used
for exposing boolean node sockets in the geometry nodes modifier.
I've just extended the places existing IDProperty types are used, and
tested with the custom property edit operator and the python console.
Adding another IDProperty type is a straightforward extension of the
existing design.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12815
The menus are growing too large. This patches move some categories under
sub-menus, and shuffle some entries around.
We already had sub-categories split by separators. This change now
goes a step further and embrace 3-level menus.
Inspired by the "Simpler Add Menu" add-on by Quackers (waiting to hear
back to know Quackers real name).
Inspired by the "Simpler Add Menu" add-on by Alfonso Martinez II.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16993
In case there is only 1 key on the FCurve,
the operator can run into a situation where it divides by 0.
It now skips the curve in that case
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16982
Ref: D16982
Added an extrude mode enum to the trim operators to
control extrusion: "project" and "fixed." "Fixed" just
extrudes along a fixed normal and is the new default.
An apostrophe should not be used because it is not a mark of plural,
even for initialisms. This involves mostly comments, but a few UI
messages are affected as well.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16749
Set origin and convert operator now accepts point cloud and new curve
object. But these operators were not added in context menu.
Support for set origin and convert operator was added in
rBadb4dd911b91, rB933d56d9e98d and rB2752a88478a8
Reviewed by: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16939
Currently the `MLoopUV` struct stores UV coordinates and flags related
to editing UV maps in the UV editor. This patch changes the coordinates
to use the generic 2D vector type, and moves the flags into three
separate boolean attributes. This follows the design in T95965, with
the ultimate intention of simplifying code and improving performance.
Importantly, the change allows exporters and renderers to use UVs
"touched" by geometry nodes, which only creates generic attributes.
It also allows geometry nodes to create "proper" UV maps from scratch,
though only with the Store Named Attribute node for now.
The new design considers any 2D vector attribute on the corner domain
to be a UV map. In the future, they might be distinguished from regular
2D vectors with attribute metadata, which may be helpful because they
are often interpolated differently.
Most of the code changes deal with passing around UV BMesh custom data
offsets and tracking the boolean "sublayers". The boolean layers are
use the following prefixes for attribute names: vert selection: `.vs.`,
edge selection: `.es.`, pinning: `.pn.`. Currently these are short to
avoid using up the maximum length of attribute names. To accommodate
for these 4 extra characters, the name length limit is enlarged to 68
bytes, while the maximum user settable name length is still 64 bytes.
Unfortunately Python/RNA API access to the UV flag data becomes slower.
Accessing the boolean layers directly is be better for performance in
general.
Like the other mesh SoA refactors, backward and forward compatibility
aren't affected, and won't be changed until 4.0. We pay for that by
making mesh reading and writing more expensive with conversions.
Resolves T85962
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14365
**Changes**
As described in T93602, this patch removes all use of the `MVert`
struct, replacing it with a generic named attribute with the name
`"position"`, consistent with other geometry types.
Variable names have been changed from `verts` to `positions`, to align
with the attribute name and the more generic design (positions are not
vertices, they are just an attribute stored on the point domain).
This change is made possible by previous commits that moved all other
data out of `MVert` to runtime data or other generic attributes. What
remains is mostly a simple type change. Though, the type still shows up
859 times, so the patch is quite large.
One compromise is that now `CD_MASK_BAREMESH` now contains
`CD_PROP_FLOAT3`. With the general move towards generic attributes
over custom data types, we are removing use of these type masks anyway.
**Benefits**
The most obvious benefit is reduced memory usage and the benefits
that brings in memory-bound situations. `float3` is only 3 bytes, in
comparison to `MVert` which was 4. When there are millions of vertices
this starts to matter more.
The other benefits come from using a more generic type. Instead of
writing algorithms specifically for `MVert`, code can just use arrays
of vectors. This will allow eliminating many temporary arrays or
wrappers used to extract positions.
Many possible improvements aren't implemented in this patch, though
I did switch simplify or remove the process of creating temporary
position arrays in a few places.
The design clarity that "positions are just another attribute" brings
allows removing explicit copying of vertices in some procedural
operations-- they are just processed like most other attributes.
**Performance**
This touches so many areas that it's hard to benchmark exhaustively,
but I observed some areas as examples.
* The mesh line node with 4 million count was 1.5x (8ms to 12ms) faster.
* The Spring splash screen went from ~4.3 to ~4.5 fps.
* The subdivision surface modifier/node was slightly faster
RNA access through Python may be slightly slower, since now we need
a name lookup instead of just a custom data type lookup for each index.
**Future Improvements**
* Remove uses of "vert_coords" functions:
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_alloc`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_get`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_apply{_with_mat4}`
* Remove more hidden copying of positions
* General simplification now possible in many areas
* Convert more code to C++ to use `float3` instead of `float[3]`
* Currently `reinterpret_cast` is used for those C-API functions
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15982
This patch moves the realtime compositor out of experimental. See
T99210.
The first milestone is finished with regards to implementing most
essential nodes for single pass compositing. It is also now documented
in the manual and no major issues are known.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16891
Reviewed By: Clement Foucault
The "While Held" option from the Pose Propagate Operator
doesn't do anything meaningful.
After talking with the Animation Module it was decided to remove it.
In code it was called `POSE_PROPAGATE_SMART_HOLDS`
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16771
Ref: D16771
Added a new operator that aligns selected keys on an exponential curve
Revied by Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9479
Ref: D9479
When pasting nodes with the shortcut or the context menu, place the
center of the selected nodes at the same position as the mouse cursor.
This should save time, and is more intuitive because the new nodes are
actually visible.
Based on a patch by Juanfran Matheu (@jfmatheu).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10787
There are two underlying issues which got uncovered by the report:
First, is that the poll() function for the operator was using legacy
API which is on its way of removal in the next major version release.
This part is fixed in this patch based on a patch provided by Philipp
Oeser (P3389) with the modification that the `clip` is not accessed
prior to None check. Ended up in a bit annoying one-liner, the entire
function could be refactored to use early returns.
The second issue is that the Python access to the legacy property
was wrong: need to access camera reconstruction instead of accessing
deprecated DNA field.
It's confusing for users when the Dopesheet's Editor Buttons for Grease Pencil are greyed out.
{F14099985}
[[ https://blenderartists.org/t/cant-create-new-layers-in-grease-pencil-dopesheet/1353882 | Can’t create new layers in grease pencil dopesheet ]]
This is often because the 'Only Show Selected' filter is disabled. This 'requirement' does not seem to be necessary since the Dopesheet is already in Grease Pencil mode and there is an active Grease Pencil Object. It is also not apparent as to why so many Operators depend on it and unintuitive that it controls their function. The 'Only Show Selected' filter button is far away from the Operator buttons in the User Interface Header, so it's difficult to make the association.
If the 'Only Show Selected' IS absolutely required, I believe it should be closer to the DOPESHEET_HT_editor_buttons. Otherwise, I think the requirement should be removed.
Reviewed By: antoniov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16885
This patch adds rename popup when using Y key to switch
active layer and choosing New layer in Draw mode.
It follows https://developer.blender.org/D15092, which introduced this
for moving selected strokes to layers in Edit mode.
Reviewed By: antoniov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16877
Remove the option to display the real size of the cursor
and set as default. Now the cursor is displayed or not using
show_cursor option, but if it's displayed always use the real size.
This patch makes sure that each of the expand keymap entries will use consistent "invert" and "use_mask_preserve" properties.
Based on previous discussions we decided to flip the default Mask Expand behavior.
This has multiple benefited:
- The mask creation is more consistent with other masking tools (Always add to existing mask. Mask selected areas)
- It's easier to use expanding for masking face sets (Snapping with `Ctrl`) or building a mask from repeated operations
- It's less likely to mask certain areas unintentionally (Loose mesh islands)
- If the current behavior is desired for an expand operation the user can use `E` & `F` in the modal keymap (Which is less often the case).
If we want to revisit the original design of inverted masking again in the future we should do this via {T97903}.
Reviewed By: Joseph Eagar
Differential Revision https://developer.blender.org/D16434
Ref D16434
Remove the redundant option to disable selection in order to simplify
the tools and UI, both conceptually and internally.
It was possible to disable curves selection completely by clicking on
the active selection domain. However, that was redundant compared to
just selecting everything by pressing "A". The remaining potential use
could have been saving a selection for later, but that can be done with
more complete attribute editing tools in the future.
This panel showed a duplication of options that were in the main light panel and only mistakenly shows up in the workbench engine where lights should have no options.
This panel was also used by the POV-Ray add-on but that was removed recently.
When drawing strokes in Grease Pencil, it was always a bit hard
to predict how thick the strokes would be, because there was
no visual reference of the thickness in the cursor.
This patch adds that visual reference. It shows the brush size
as a circle in the draw cursor.
Showing the brush size can be toggled in the Cursor menu
of the Grease Pencil draw tool.
Request in RCS with 26 upvotes for this option:
https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/0zfbbc
On the technical side: the brush size is calculated
in 3D space and takes zoom level into account, as well as
object/layer transfrom, layer thickness change (gpl->line_change)
and thickness scale (gpd->pixfactor).
Reviewed By: mendio, antoniov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16851
This replaces the old Edit menu, creating a menu only for catalog
operators. The Undo/Redo were already working only for catalogs, so now
this is more clear.
The menu also contains the Save and New catalog operators.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16820
Make the "Clear Motion Paths" operators more intuitive. Previously, the
only way to clear the motion path of the selected object/bone would be
to shift-click the "Clear ALL Motion Paths" button. Now there are two
"X" buttons, one for "selected" and one for "all".
The "Clear Selected" and "Clear All" buttons align with the
corresponding "Update Selected" and "Update All" buttons.
(MacOS) only: In the System tab of the user preferences the user has the
ability to select a GPU backend that Blender will use. After changing
the GPU backend setting, the user has to restart Blender before the
setting is used.
It was added to start collecting feedback on the Metal backend without
using the command lines.
By default Blender will select OpenGL as backend. When Metal is selected
(via `--gpu-backend metal` or via user preferences) OpenGL will be used as
fallback when the platform isn't capable of running Metal.
This patch allows skipping the automatic insertion of nodes on top of
links when the transform operator ends. When putting nodes into small
spaces this often gets in the way and wastes time. Now, when holding
`alt`, this is turned off.
The header text is also improved to add this shortcut and to remove
the Dx and Dy values and improve the formatting a bit.
Making this functionality optional might allow us to use it in more
places in the future, like for the nodes added by link-drag-search.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16230
This was only called once in a situation where such functions
are typically used as a dynamic enum callbacks.
Prefer keeping the items close to the EnumProperty definition &
avoid the need to note why this is a special case that doesn't follow
the common pattern for enum callbacks.
- Follow sphinx conventions for doc-strings.
- Use __slots__ for KeyframesCo as dynamically assigning new members
isn't needed.
- Import from bpy.types instead of assigning.
- Split typing imports across multiple lines as they tend to become
quite large.
* Make it clearer that contrib isn't shipped with releases, by already excluding it in beta.
* Improve the UI by hiding the "Testing" enum item in these case.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16729
Expand the motion path frame range options with an extra option "Manual
Range". When chosen, Blender will not automatically update the path
range any more.
Additionally, the start/end frame fields are greyed out in the UI when
one of the automatic range options is selected (i.e. all but the new
"Manual Range" one). It is still possible to set the start/end frame
temporarily, but the original behaviour (of recomputing those on update)
remains.
Manifest Task: T101522
Improve a few messages, but mostly fix typos in many areas of the UI.
See inline comments in the differential revisiion for the rationale
behind the various changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16716
The Blur Attribute node mixes values of neighboring elements in meshes and curves.
Currently it supports points, edges and faces on meshes and points on curves.
In theory, support for face corners could be added, but useful semantics are not
obvious yet.
The node calculates a weighted average of each element with its neighbors (based
on curve/mesh topology). The weight of the element itself is always 1, and the weight
of the neighbor elements is controlled by the weight input socket. In the future,
more options for how different elements are weight can be added (e.g. smoothing
groups and selection).
The node can perform multiple blurring iterations to achieve a blurrier result.
Generally, it is better to do multiple iterations in one node instead of using
multiple blur nodes because it has better performance in the current implementation.
We use the term "Blur" (instead of "Smooth") because smoothing is generally more
related to removing roughness from surfaces. When viewing the result of the
Blur Attribute node in the viewport, it looks like an image is blurred. While the
node can also be used to smooth surfaces, other/better algorithms exists for that
purpose (which e.g. don't reduce the volume of the mesh to zero with too many
iterations).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13952
**Problem**:
Area lights in Cycles have spread angle, in which case some part of the area light might be invisible to a shading point. The current implementation samples the whole area light, resulting some samples invisible and thus simply discarded. A technique is applied on rectangular light to sample a subset of the area light that is potentially visible (rB3f24cfb9582e1c826406301d37808df7ca6aa64c), however, ellipse (including disk) area lights remained untreated. The purpose of this patch is to apply a techniques to ellipse area light.
**Related Task**:
T87053
**Results**:
These are renderings before and after the patch:
|16spp|Disk light|Ellipse light|Square light (for reference, no changes)
|Before|{F13996789}|{F13996788}|{F13996822}
|After|{F13996759}|{F13996787}|{F13996852}
**Explanation**:
The visible region on an area light is found by drawing a cone from the shading point to the plane where the area light lies, with the aperture of the cone being the light spread.
{F13990078,height=200}
Ideally, we would like to draw samples only from the intersection of the area light and the projection of the cone onto the plane (forming a circle). However, the shape of the intersection is often irregular and thus hard to sample from directly.
{F13990104,height=200}
Instead, the current implementation draws samples from the bounding rectangle of the intersection. In this case, we still end up with some invalid samples outside of the circle, but already much less than sampling the original area light, and the bounding rectangle is easy to sample from.
{F13990125}
The above technique is only applied to rectangle area lights, ellipse area light still suffers from poor sampling. We could apply a similar technique to ellipse area lights, that is, find the
smallest regular shape (rectangle, circle, or ellipse) that covers the intersection (or maybe not the smallest but easy to compute).
For disk area light, we consider the relative position of both circles. Denoting `dist` as the distance between the centre of two circles, and `r1`, `r2` their radii. If `dist > r1 + r2`, the area light is completely invisible, we directly return `false`. If `dist < abs(r1 - r2)`, the smaller circle lies inside the larger one, and we sample whichever circle is smaller. Otherwise, the two circles intersect, we compute the bounding rectangle of the intersection, in which case `axis_u`, `len_u`, `axis_v`, `len_v` needs to be computed anew. Depending on the distance between the two circles, `len_v` is either the diameter of the smaller circle or the length of the common chord.
|{F13990211,height=195}|{F13990225,height=195}|{F13990274,height=195}|{F13990210,height=195}
|`dist > r1 + r2`|`dist < abs(r1 - r2)`|`dist^2 < abs(r1^2 - r2^2)`|`dist^2 > abs(r1^2 - r2^2)`
For ellipse area light, it's hard to find the smallest bounding shape of the intersection, therefore, we compute the bounding rectangle of the ellipse itself, then treat it as a rectangle light.
|{F13990386,height=195}|{F13990385,height=195}|{F13990387,height=195}
We also check the areas of the bounding rectangle of the intersection, the ellipse (disk) light, and the spread circle, then draw samples from the smallest shape of the three. For ellipse light, this also detects where one shape lies inside the other. I am not sure if we should add this measure to rectangle area light and sample from the spread circle when it has smaller area, as we seem to have a better sampling technique for rectangular (uniformly sample the solid angle). Maybe we could add [area-preserving parameterization for spherical
ellipse](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.09048.pdf) in the future.
**Limitation**:
At some point we switch from sampling the ellipse to sampling the rectangle, depending on the area of the both, and there seems to be a visible line (with |slope| =1) on the final rendering
which demonstrate at which point we switch between the two methods. We could see that the new sampling method clearly has lower variance near the boundaries, but close to that visible line,
the rectangle sampling method seems to have larger variance. I could not spot any bug in the implementation, and I am not sure if this happens because different sampling patterns for ellipse and rectangle are used.
|Before (256spp)|After (256spp)
|{F13996995}|{F13996998}
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16694
This updates the libraries dependencies for VFX platform 2023, and adds various
new libraries. It also enables Python bindings and switches from static to
shared for various libraries.
The precompiled libraries for all platforms will be updated to these new
versions in the coming weeks.
New:
Fribidi 1.0.12
Harfbuzz 5.1.0
MaterialX 1.38.6 (shared lib with python bindings)
Minizipng 3.0.7
Pybind11 2.10.1
Shaderc 2022.3
Vulkan 1.2.198
Updated:
Boost 1.8.0 (shared lib)
Cython 0.29.30
Numpy 1.23.2
OpenColorIO 2.2.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenImageIO 2.4.6.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenSubdiv 3.5.0
OpenVDB 10.0.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OSL 1.12.7.1 (enable nvptx backend)
TBB (shared lib)
USD 22.11 (shared lib with python bindings, enable hydra)
yaml-cpp 0.8.0
Includes contributions by Ray Molenkamp, Brecht Van Lommel, Georgiy Markelov
and Campbell Barton.
Ref T99618
Instead of the the same folder as the Blender executable, generate a manifest
that lets us move the libraries out of the way of users and into a separate
folder.
Ref T99618
Remove most of the old (pre-3.0) pose library:
- Remove The entire `editors/armature/pose_lib.c` file
- Deprecate `Object::poselib` in DNA
- Remove Operators marked as deprecated in T93405
- Remove RNA property `Object.pose_library`
- Add comment to clarify that the call `BLO_read_id_address(reader,
ob->id.lib, &ob->poselib);` handles deprecated data.
Note that this functionality has been documented as deprecated since
Blender 3.2.
What remains of the old pose library: The DNA for action markers
(`bAction::markers`) and the corresponding Python API. This will allow
future versions of Blender to still convert old pose libraries to new
ones (via the Pose Library panel in the Action editor).
Manifest task: T93406
rB8b7cd1ed2a17 broke this for the paint slots
rB4669178fc378 broke this for regular attributes
Name filtering in UI Lists works when:
- [one] the items to be filtered have a name property
-- see how `uilist_filter_items_default` gets the `namebuf`
- [two] custom python filter functions (`filter_items`) implement it
themselves
-- if you use `filter_items` and dont do name filtering there, the default
name filtering wont be used
So, two problems with rB8b7cd1ed2a17:
- [1] items to be listed changed from `texture_paint_images` to
`texture_paint_slots`
-- the former has name_property defined, the later lacks this
- [2] the new `ColorAttributesListBase` defined a `filter_items` function,
but did not implement name filtering
And the problem with rB4669178fc378:
- it added `filter_items` functions, but did not implement name filtering.
These are all corrected now.
Fixes T102878
Maniphest Tasks: T102878
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16676
This unassign the Alt+D shortcut from the detach operator. Right now the
operator has to be accessed via the menu.
Alt+D is left for duplicate link, following the other editors.
`is_internal` is supposed to mean that the attribute shouldn't be
visible in lists or the spreadsheet by default, and that it can't be
accessed in geometry nodes. But the value was reversed, which
just happened to work because the list filtering was swapped.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16680
When entering paint modes the paint pivot was cleared,
which broken rotate around pivot. Fixed for all paint modes.
PBVH modes set the pivot to the PBVH bounding box
while texture paint uses the evaluated mesh bounding box.
a5e7657cee missed this call where clamped slicing is necessary.
The subdivision of a segment purposefully modifies the handle types of
the other side of the following control point, but that didn't work for
the final cyclic segment.
With the asset identifier introduced in the previous commit, we can now
locate an asset just from its `AssetRepresentation`, without requiring
information from the asset library and the file browser storage. With
this we can remove some hacks and function parameters. A RNA/BPY
function is also affected, but I didn't remove the paramter to keep
compatibility. It's simply ignored and not required anymore, noted this
in the parameter description (noted for T102877).
When applying the "Bake Action" operator in pose mode
it could throw an error saying "Nothing to Bake"
even though bones are selected
That is because the code was looking for a selected armature
But in Pose Mode, clicking into empty space to de-select would also
deselect the armature.
Then box selecting would not make the armature selected again
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16593
When applying the "Bake Action" operator in pose mode
it could throw an error saying "Nothing to Bake"
even though bones are selected
That is because the code was looking for a selected armature
But in Pose Mode, clicking into empty space to de-select would also
deselect the armature.
Then box selecting would not make the armature selected again
Reviewed by: Sybren A. Stüvel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16593
Actually, the interpolation can be done only between keyframes different of breakdown type,
but in some cases, this is not convenient.
Now, a new option is displayed to allow the interpolation using breakdown keyframes
as interpolation extremes.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16515
This patch makes the Bake Actions operator fills the Start Frame & End From with that of the Preview Range if "Use Preview Range" is enabled.
{F13973619}
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16630
Harley Acheson
Christoph Lendenfeld
Campbell Barton
bonj
Patrick Busch
Richard Antalik
Sergey Sharybin
Bastien Montagne
Damien Picard
Julian Eisel
Jeroen Bakker
Francesco Siddi
YimingWu
Dalai Felinto
Dalai Felinto
Christoph Lendenfeld
Erik Abrahamsson
Philipp Oeser
Philipp Oeser
Hans Goudey
Falk David
Pablo Vazquez
Thomas Dinges
Hans Goudey
Jacques Lucke
Robin Hohnsbeen
Erik Abrahamsson
Brecht Van Lommel
Falk David
Iliya Katueshenock
Erik Abrahamsson
Kevin C. Burke
Clément Foucault
Lukas Stockner
b-init
Weizhen Huang
Joseph Eagar
Damien Picard
Aaron Carlisle
Colin Basnett
demeterdzadik@gmail.com
Aaron Carlisle
Michael Kowalski
Faheim Arslan M
Miguel Pozo
Jacques Lucke
Jeffrey Liu
Chris Blackbourn
Colin Basnett
Pratik Borhade
Martijn Versteegh
Omar Emara
Christoph Lendenfeld
YimingWu
Aleš Jelovčan
Antonio Vazquez
Sietse Brouwer
Sybren A. Stüvel
Jeroen Bakker
Thomas Dinges
Iliya Katueshenock
Ray Molenkamp
Philipp Oeser